Gnome Subtitles 0.8 has been released. Release details follow.

• Added spell checking support:
• Highlights spelling errors while typing
• Uses Enchant in order to support multiple spell checking backends
• Allows to spell check subtitles and translation in different languages
• Added support for the following subtitle formats:
• AQ Title
• MacSUB
• Sofni
• SubCreator 1.x
• ViPlay Subtitle File
• Allow to show the translation with the video, besides the original subtitles
• Fixed a crash that happened when closing the Encoding Selection dialog
• Improved the auto-detection of subtitle formats
• Do not package SubLib anymore, it should be installed as a package of its own

Bug fixes:

• Spellchecker support (#462317)
• Selecting translation to show on top of movie (#495551)
• Some strings are hard to translate (#510808)
• Crash on close of "Add or remove" encoding dialog (#520804)
• Files are installed with wrong permissions (#524765)

Translations:

• Joan Duran (ca)
• Philip Withnall (en_GB)
• Jorge Gonzlez (es)
• Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
• Alexandre Imache, Claude Paroz, Frederic Peters, Stphane Raimbault (fr)
• Yair Hershkovitz (he)
• Yannig Marchegay (oc)
• Antnio Lima (pt)
• Daniel Nylander (sv)

Thanks:

• Julian Sikorski, Mathias Brodala, Marcin Zajaczkowski, Nazar Kulyk

Gnome Subtitles is now in the official Ubuntu repositories (Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron release).

There is, however, a missing dependency in the package which may make the application crash when creating new files. If so, please install the "libmono-i18n2.0-cil" package using Synaptic. This will be fixed in future releases.

Slackware packages are available in the Gnome Slacky repository.

Mandriva packages are available in the official contrib repository.

Gnome Subtitles has received the Editor Award from Uptodown.com.

In other news, quoting a recent article from Linux.com:

Gnome Subtitles is probably the best subtitle editing application in Linux.

Under preparation is release 0.8 of Gnome Subtitles, which is to be expected soon. Stay tuned.

This bugfix release features:

• Updated the about dialog
• Fixed some compilation warnings

Translations:

• Djihed Afifi (ar)
• Yannig Marchegay (oc)

Thanks:

• Tiago Bortoletto Vaz

This bugfix release features:

• Fixed a bug with compilation failing on 64 bit machines
• Fixed a crasher bug that happened when changing to Frames mode after startup
• Fixed a bug in the man page
• Changed the build libdir to work on 64 bit machines
• Updated translation credits in the About dialog

Bug fixes:

• Doesn't work on F7 64b (#487842)
• Crash on video loading (#500264)
• DllNotFoundException when opening a video file (#503049)

Translations:

• Yannig Marchegay (oc)

Thanks:

• Damien Carbery, Karel Hudan, Luciano A. Ferrer, Stanislaw Pitucha, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz

This release features the work carried out with the help of Cristina Yenyxe, who I'd proudly like to welcome to the project. She has been collaborating not only with Gnome Subtitles but also with the SubLib project. Release notes follow.

Added GStreamer support for video previewing, replacing MPlayer:

• Improved seeking precision
• Fixes crashes with video playback
• Integrates better with GNOME

Added support for the following subtitle formats:

• Adobe Encore DVD
• DKS Subtitle Format
• Karaoke Lyrics LRC
• Karaoke Lyrics VKT
• Panimator
• Phoenix Japanimation Society
• Power DivX

Added video-related keyboard shortcuts:

• Play/Pause - Ctrl+P or F5
• Rewind - Ctrl+K or F6
• Forward - Ctrl+L or F7
• Set Subtitle Start - Ctrl+D
• Set Subtitle End - Ctrl+E

Other features:

• Display OGG video files in the File and Video Open dialogs
• Different subtitle formats share similar headers, when edited

Bug Fixes:

• Integration with GStreamer For Video Previewing (#363412)
• More keyboard shortcuts (#436746)
• Crash when opening a video after an unsuccessful file open (#455923)
• Unable to use the Cyrillic CP1251 encoding (#456535)
• Crash when toggling Play/Pause (#457150)
• Control buttons do not work when movie ends (#457760)
• Crash on Video Rewind (#465233)
• Missing OGG file in open video dialog (#466342)
• pl_PL (Polish) translation and issues (#484231)

Translations:

• Nick Agianniotis (el)
• Ilkka Tuohela (fi)
• Yannig Marchegay (oc)
• Tomasz Sałaciński (pl)
• Raphael Higino (pt_BR)
• Daniel Nylander (sv)

Thanks:

• Danail Nedyalkov, Goran Sterjov, Luciano A. Ferrer, Mario Señoranis, Miguel Filho

Gnome Subtitles has finally made it to the official Debian repositories. Debian users now have an easy way to install the application, which is great.

Many thanks to Tiago Bortoletto Vaz, Senthil Kumaran and Otavio Salvador, who made this possible.

I'm very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Gnome Subtitles 0.6.

This release brings the long-awaited support for subtitle translation, allowing to create new translations and open existing translated subtitles, and well as saving them afterwards in separate files. Searching for text now includes the translations too.

Text editing information has also been improved, with the current cursor position being shown in the status bar, accompanied by the current editing mode (Insert or Overwrite). Also on text editing, support for Undo and Redo was greatly improved. While Undo/Redo used to apply to entire text lines before, it now applies to words, allowing to undo a text line incrementally. Moreover, the text that Undo/Redo applies to will be selected, and the cursor position set to where it was before that command.

This release is also the first to be translated to other languages. Many thanks to the following translators, who were the first ones to step in:

• Joan Duran (ca)
• Yumkee Lhamo (dz)
• Jorge González, Paulino Padial (es)
• Daniel Nylander (sv)

Other changes include:

• Try the remaining encodings when the first fails, on File Open
• Close the save error dialog immediately when accepting to open another file, so the error message isn't visible behind
• Use a different way of detecting the system data dir, which works on FreeBSD
• Fixed multiple menu underlines and accelerators
• Use an updated version of the character coding auto-detection library
• Fixed a bug related to searching backwards
• Fixed some errors with the documentation

Bug fixes:

• Translator mode (#387867)
• Write fault on path when using Video (#438947)
• Add an abstract with the role attribute set to "description" (#439274)
• Exception when getting the CurrentFolder in the File Open dialog (#442513)
• Exception when getting the Filename in the File Open dialog (#443061)
• Shift limit was 100 frames in the Shift dialog

Thanks:

• Marcin Simonides, Thilo Pfennig

This release fixes a bug with the documentation which prevented the compilation from finishing when using the latest version of gnome-doc-utils.